Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Metro Vancouver to sign B.C. transit deal More than $900 million earmarked for infrastructure projects provincewide

“Prime Minister Trudeau arrives at an announcement on a SkyTrain with a TransLink driver, along with Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and B.C. Premier Christy Clark on Thursday.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Metro Vancouver to sign B.C. transit deal

More than $900 million earmarked for infrastructure projects provincewide

CBC News Posted: Jun 15, 2016 6:38 PM PT

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Christy Clark have signed a transit funding agreement totaling over $900 million, making British Columbia the first province in Canada to ratify a bilateral transit deal.

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Arriving at a Burnaby transit facility on a SkyTrain Thursday morning, Trudeau was joined by Clark, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and a swath of MPs, MLAs and mayors from across the province.

Trudeau said that he was pleased that the first bilateral agreement had been signed with B.C.

"Coming to B.C. always feels like coming home," he said.

The prime minister said that, after a decade of a lack of investment in infrastructure across the country, his government wants provinces and municipalities to make their own decisions about where the money is best spent.

PROBLEMS for the POLITICIANS and their ILLEGAL PRIVATISATION of  PUBLIC  tax contribution paid for, by Canadian citizens)TRANSIT: The Federal government are NOT, never were, and never can be, owners; they are simply administrators, nothing more; therefore they the politicians and governments cannot—may not sell PUBLICLY OWNED properties, without  their employers [Canadian CITIZEN/taxpayers] permission.

Transit referendum: Voters say No to new Metro Vancouver tax, transit improvements

“Without new funding, transit services to be cut across region”, Mayor Gregor Robertson says.

After “the mayors council, and the provincial government politicians spent  millions on a referendum, which as evidence proves they fully intended to ignore, in any case; METRO VANCOUVERITES still VOTED NO in the PLEBISCITE ON A $7.5-BILLION REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PLAN, MAKING IT UNCERTAIN HOW IMPROVEMENTS TO TRANSIT AND TRANSPORTATION WILL BE FUNDED OVER THE NEXT DECADE.

Voters were asked whether they were for or against ANY NEW TAXATION specifically, in this particular instance, a 0.5 per cent sales tax; to SUPPOSEDLY help fund major infrastructure projects, a plan that would have put Vancouver on the same path as U.S. cities including Seattle, Los Angeles and Denver that DID vote therefore condoning use of a SALES TAX for PUBLIC TRANSIT/ INFASTRUCTURE FUNDING.

The vote was 61.7 per cent No and 38.4 per cent Yes overall for the region, with 759,696 ballots cast in the mail-in plebiscite.

CANADIANS live, build, look after EACH OTHER, pay taxes, raise  families, workin in Canada…FUCK GETTING ON THE SAME PATH, OR ON THE SAME GRID-- AS SEATTLE, LOS ANGELES, DENVER, OR ANY OTHER PART OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA.~~~Al (Alex-Alexander) D. Girvan.